E. F. Schumacher Quotes

Only a weak person needed someone else around all the time.

It is terrible to have to ask for anything ever. We wish we were something that needed nothing, like paint. But even paint needs repainting.

You can become quite blase, and also, I have no sense of home; I don't have roots. I've never had that feeling that someone else is going to take care of me, ever. I don't trust people.

I don't want a life without my mom in it, but I'm not someone who curls up in the fetal position and says, 'Mommy, take care of me!' I don't like people catering to me. It feels so awkward and uncomfortable.

I would not send a poor girl into the world, ignorant of the snares that beset her path; nor would I watch and guard her, till, deprived of self-respect and self-reliance, she lost the power or the will to watch and guard herself.

I often feel the need of a man to take care of me, even though I can certainly take care of myself.

I couldn't even go to the bathroom alone. My mother or a social worker always went with me.

If you live your life as a hostage to everybody else's decision, you either have to live a very narrow life, or you have to spend a lot of time in pain.

You cannot rely on the police, you cannot rely on the government, you cannot rely on the bank to protect you.

The person who needs the other person the least in a relationship is the stronger member.

I hate being helpless, and I hate having to ask people to do things for me.

I'm afraid to go to sleep; I don't like to lose control of myself. I don't like chauffeurs, either. I like to be in charge of my own destiny.

I value my independence a lot, and the thought of having to lose that due to age or any other reason terrifies me.

In truth , mankind cannot be saved from without, by schoolmasters or any other sort of masters: it can only be lamed and enslaved by them. It is said that if you wash a cat it will never again wash itself. This may or may not be true : what is certain is that if you teach a man anything he will never learn it; and if you cure him of a disease he will be unable to cure himself the next time it attacks him.

When I cannot stand alone, it will be time to die.

I don't ever want to have to need someone again - where you feel like, without them, you can't be yourself.

He raked his fingers through his hair. "She doesn't need me." Ralston smirked. "You are laboring under that mistaken impression that it is their job to need us. In my experience it is almost always the other way around.

...its a rather pleasant change when all your life you've had people looking after you, to have someone to look after yourself. Only of course it has to be someone pretty hopeless to need looking after by me.

Security is the slogan for people who feel unable to function by their own means.

Most of us need the crutch at times; but of course it is idiotic to use the crutch when our own legs (our own loves, tastes, habits etc.) can do the journey on their own.

My identity depended on men for so long. You can be successful and still have the feeling that if you're not with a man you don't exist.

It's far easier to put your future into someone else's hands than it is to slog your way forward, owning the results as you go.

K--: 'When they say "I am my own person," "I do not need a man," "I am responsible for my own sexuality," they are actually telling you just what they want you to make them forget.

You deserve to need me, not to have me.

If He who in Himself can lack nothing, chooses to need us, it is because we need to be needed.